Effective compassion winners

Hope Award | From nine finalists came one whose commitment to children of inmates received top billing | Marvin Olasky

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Six months ago WORLD asked readers to write to us about local ministries to the needy. We wanted nominees that are explicitly Christian and rely on volunteers rather than government dollars. We hoped also to find replicable efforts: What a group does in one place should be doable by others elsewhere.

Readers sent us information about more than 150 groups. We learned about so many great programs that narrowing the field was hard, but after reading reports and making phone calls we selected nine groups for our reporters to visit. You've read profiles of those groups in the past three issues.

We eventually asked three of the groups to send representatives to an Oct. 16 awards dinner in Dallas co-sponsored by WORLD and the American Bible Society (ABS). Here are the three finalists, each of which received from ABS a $5,000 award:

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November 07, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 22

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